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Sweden Warns, Stop Using Google Analytics
| “In its audits, IMY [the Swedish DPA] considers that the data transferred to the U.S. via Google’s statistics tool is personal data because the data can be linked with other unique data that is transferred. The authority also concludes that the technical security measures that the companies have taken are not sufficient to ensure a level of protection that essentially corresponds to that guaranteed within the EU/EEA,” the regulator wrote in a statement.
| https://www.imy.se/en/news/companies-must-stop-using-google-analytics/
| 0o0 <-- My face hearing these shocking and unexpected revelations
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| Sweden's data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users' data via Google Analytics which it found breach the bloc's privacy rulebook owing to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance. It has also warned other companies against use of Google's tool.